Hi North, cheers. I wonder how North you are? I'm at fabulous Doubtless Bay. When I first got here I couldn't find any work that suited me, I did a day here and there, a handyman job here and there but I was fast eroding my savings. Fortunately I ...
Because I want to live in a country that promotes equal opportunity on a global scale. The world's future leaders and captains of industry will be coming from institutions of this type. I think Maori colonising the OECD will make us all proud. Auckland, ...
Hi Karol, yes, exactly. Physical capability is just 1 piece of being a thriver. More important is addressing and adapting to our environment. Mere slips of women have driven me to my knees...please don't make me cry.
If they vowed to attach 100 Yale/Harvard/Oxford/Cambridge scholarships to the Nga Puhi settlement they'd be barking up my tree. I don't think we need free lunches, we just need access to a skilled tutor and a commercial kitchen.
There are a number of sayings we use that have come to encapsulate evolution. One is: 'Survival of the fittest.' I think that implies a spirit of competition. Most teams I've ever been a part of end training sessions with a friendly game, exercise the ...
As the Swedes are now finding out, it's an ideology that lends itself to exploitation by those that aren't 100% subscribed to the big picture. If we offered solo Mums of two $1050 a week and a state subsidised home yet hammered workers with a 48% PAYE bill...
We are born to strive and prosper through competition. All living things are, it is the basis of evolution. The teams that lost the World Cup didn't disband, they didn't quit. They studied where they went wrong, vowed to come back stronger next time and ...
Most here seem disappointed Labour have gone the way they have with this bill. Will the disgruntled stop voting left? Of course not. It's not those hearts Little needs to win. The Left reaching over to the Right or vice versa, for a century, that is what ...
When I migrated to Sweden around 2000 the gap between rich and poor was the closest I've ever seen it. Supermarket check-out girls were paying off their own places. It was fantastic, I loved it, most did. The lowering of EU borders and their socialist ...
To make steel iron ore is heated to make pig iron. Currently there is one way to smelt iron from ore, high grade coking coal. This is the type of coal that is in Pike, it represents 60% of our mining company Solid Energy's production. It is the most ...
It seems you have joined this thread for no other reason than to firstly carry on slagging me and secondly stimulate support for a mass slagging of me. I know who I am weka. Your strategies to belittle me and make me feel like a lesser person than you ...
Yeah, that is sort of what your point has become hey weka. A few last random gobs of spit in my face. I still love you....[RL: Deleted. Too far]
Do you find "You must be very fucked in the head Double plus good" a perfectly acceptable way to commence a conversation with someone you haven't met before?
Me: “Feeling like a contributing member of a society and being in paid work are most definitely not the same thing.” You: "That’s right. Your original comment was almost wholly focussed on making people work ready." For your position to have some weight it...
Feeling like a contributing member of a society and being in paid work are most definitely not the same thing. Over and over around the modern world it is being proven that the best way to approach alcohol and drug habits, addictions (...splitting stupid ...
You seem very bitter Weka, I'm sorry. I live in the same place as you and I'm surrounded by a fabulous array of endless opportunities. I sometimes wonder if it's just my attitude but it's an outlook that just keeps on delivering. I think every single ...
Thanks for taking the time Ghost. Your time wasn't wasted. I accept and acknowledge the issues you raise and yes: Binding signed contracts are not viable. Your other key point: Thin ice re: ministers of the crown doing deals with private business operators...
I agree. Lifting that sector's lot in life is important. Again, to enjoy popular support I think any spokespersons push for improvements should focus on increased opportunities as opposed to 50 extra bucks. Opportunities for training in fields for which ...
I think this thread is a prime example of what ails the Labour Party. A circle of people with linked arms all facing each other. Bickering over the floor-plan for the deckchair arrangement on the foredeck of the Titanic. 'Unlink, turn 180 degrees. Link up ...
Yep, all 3 issues can be addressed with a bona fide push in housing. Also: The means to get into one of these houses. Contrary to popular opinion people keen on owning their own first home aren't demanding double garages and 2 bathrooms. If we could find a...
It is very unconventional, granted. I think a win in 2017 is going to take something special. There are aspects of my idea that could be further developed. I think you're being a little bit rash to entirely dismiss what I have to say. The opportunity for ...
Yes, English is perceived as being good at his knitting. Rather than beat him by trying to match him, maybe look at strategies to outflank him. Like all Fin Mins he is a figure head. English won't move before first talking to his half doz of trusted ...
Formulate a plan and take it beyond rhetoric by securing signed contracts that become live upon Labour governing. A plan to increase the number of satisfying jobs available, career paths, lift wages, houses to own, the means for most to get into one. Then ...
OK, you live in a NZ with an ugly seething disgusting underground rape culture and I don't. I'll hang out with me thanks.
I'm all for generating opportunities Tracey. That's all. As those opportunities get picked up, that's all growing the pie is. It's not witchcraft. You have reservations because it's thinking that has produced little in the past. Our productivity to date ...
Up until the age of about 16 I believed with all my heart that John Lennon was right. All we needed to live in a harmonious world was an all encompassing love for each other. The more I read, the more movies I saw I began to chortle at the naïve outlook of...
To even get in behind the concept that we have a rape culture in NZ says something about the participant that makes me just want to walk away from them. A bad news sponge. A purveyor of 'Oh woe is me look at how awful we have all become.' I want to be ...
Hi Phil, I'm a new smartarse. You got thrown out before I could say I love the ace 10% of your graffiti but the mock cream content is just ugly spray paint on some poor old joker's fence. With a machete wielding editor wired the same as you I reckon you ...
I'm surrounded by beautiful loving people that want the best for their families and friends and we love being there for each other. You choose to surround yourself with rapists. We get what we ask for.
YES! That's what I reckon too Andrew. I've been rabbiting on about it. I don't think it need be viewed as a campaign but more a corner-stone idea to carry Labour right into the next election. The spin-off benefits are many. Housing is one area that has the...
Yes Draco, sorry I've been so long getting back to you. I called the lady that sold me my lotto ticket 'Love' and I've been charged with rape. Fair enough hey. There is no rape culture in NZ. The Roastbuster thing was frowned on by 99.9% of us. .1% does ...
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